English Dictionary

yard

/jɑːd/

noun

A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

The children played in the yard.

意味（1）

A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).

Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.

意味（2）

Units of similar composition or length in other systems.

意味（3）

(nautical) Any spar carried aloft.

意味（4）

(nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the latter two hang obliquely.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A branch, twig, or shoot.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A staff, rod, or stick.

意味（7）

(obsolete, medicine) A penis.

there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes[…].

意味（8）

(US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.

意味（9）

(obsolete) The yardland, an obsolete English unit of land roughly understood as 30 acres.

You must note, that two Fardells of Land make a Nooke of Land, and two Nookes make halfe a Yard of Land.

意味（10）

(obsolete) The rod, a surveying unit of (once) 15 or (now) 16+¹⁄₂ feet.

意味（11）

(obsolete) The rood, area bound by a square rod, ¹⁄₄ acre.